> On Monday 17 September 2001 11:42 am, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: > > I am lost, I don't know what to do find the cause of the problem. > > When I put the machine under IO stress the it lookup. It hapens > > during backup of the machine by the network to an amanda server. > > Doing tar of the filesystems can lookup the machine. > > > > What I have done to try to isolate the problem: > > - I have run memtest86 during more than one day without errors, to > > catch memory errors. > > - I have run burnK7 see if it was a heat problem. The CPU heated > > until 82 degrees and didn't crash. > > - With the CPU at 82 degrees I could compile the Linux kernel. And > > off course the temperature have gone down. > > - I have tried many kernels: 2.2.19, 2.4.7-686, 2.4.9-k6, > > 2.4.9-386. And was the same. > > > > The hardware of the machine is: > > - AMD Atlhon 900 MHz > > - 256MB SRAM > > - Motherboard is a ASUS A7V with VIA KT133 > > - A second IDE controler Promise PDC20265 > > - hda: Maxtor 91152D8, ATA DISK drive 11GB > > - hdb: Maxtor 90648D3, ATA DISK drive 6GB UltraDMA33 > > - hdc: Maxtor 98196H8, ATA DISK drive 80GB UltraDMA33 > > - Adaptec 2940U > > - scd0: Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R412C Rev: 1.07 > > - scd1: Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-20TS Rev: 1.01 > > > > What can I do more to find the cause of the lookups.
AFAIK, Linux kernel have DMA for Via chipsets disabled by default. Did you enable them? If so, try building a kernel without it. -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help NO CARRIER .
